Muhammad Iqbal quotes - page 2

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. (Muhammad Iqbal)
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. View quote
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy. View quote
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. View quote
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. View quote
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? View quote
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. View quote
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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. View quote
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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny. View quote
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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. View quote
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. (Muhammad Iqbal)
God is not a dead equation! View quote
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. View quote
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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? View quote
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Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. View quote
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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. View quote
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The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment. View quote
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. View quote
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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. View quote
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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. View quote
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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell. (Muhammad Iqbal)
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. View quote
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God. View quote
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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes. View quote
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But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing. View quote
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